SRFI History

At the Scheme
Workshop held in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 26, 1998,
the attendees considered a number of proposals for standardized
feature sets for inclusion in Scheme implementations. (Here are
the minutes.)

Alan Bawden proposed that there be a repository
for library proposals. Shriram
Krishnamurthi volunteered to host the library, and Dave Mason and
Mike
Sperber joined him as initial editors and coordinators of
the library
process. The term "Request for Implementation," a pun on the
Internet "Requests for Comment," was coined at the workshop, and
modified to "Scheme Request for Implementation" by the editors.

On November 1, 1998, the srfi minus discuss mailing list
was established which had as subscribers many major implementors
of Scheme as well as other contributors to the language. An
archive of the discussion is here.

The SRFI web site along with the other SRFI procedures was
established in late December 1998.